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Eve Sweetser
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 63
Citations - 5041
Eve Sweetser is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive linguistics & Grammar. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 62 publications receiving 4634 citations. Previous affiliations of Eve Sweetser include Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure
TL;DR: This chapter discusses semantic structure and semantic changes: English perception-verbs in an Indo-European context with a focus on the role of subordination in the meaning ofverbs.
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With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time
Rafael E. Núñez,Eve Sweetser +1 more
TL;DR: Important issues in embodied cognition are raised: how fully shared are bodily grounded motivations for universal cognitive patterns, what makes a rare pattern emerge, and what are the cultural entailments of such patterns?
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Mental Spaces in Grammar: Conditional Constructions
Barbara Dancygier,Eve Sweetser +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the door-scraper in the Wild Wood: conditional constructions and frame-based space building References Indexes are given.1. Conditional constructions, mental spaces and semantic compositionality 2. Prediction, alternativity and epistemic stance 3. Tense, epistemic distance and embedded spaces 4. Non-alternatives and alternatives: mental spaces in different domains.
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Grammaticalization and Semantic Bleaching
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley LinguisticsSociety (1988), pp. 389-405 and 381-405.